Spurred by a newfound awareness of false advertising, Stink Moody
becomes the proverbial kid in a candy store as his letter-writing
campaign yields him heaps of free rewards.
When Stink buys a mammoth jawbreaker that doesn't break his jaw, he
writes a letter of complaint to the manufacturer -- and receives a
ten-pound box of 21,280 jawbreakers for his trouble! This unexpected
benefit of acing the art of letter-writing in school sure gets Stink
thinking. Soon Stink is so preoccupied with getting free stuff sent to
him that he overlooks a scribbly envelope in the mail pile -- until his
best friend, Webster, starts acting standoffish and looks as mad as a
hornet.
In this hilarious episode from Megan McDonald and Peter H. Reynolds,
Judy Moody's shorter sibling truly comes into his own. As a delightful
bonus for both teachers and kids, thirty-six common idioms -- from two
heads are better than one to a leopard can't change its spots -- are
sprinkled throughout the story; seven of the idioms are humorously
illustrated by Stink, and all are listed at the end to inspire a search
for idioms that's more fun than a barrel of monkeys.